Posted on 09/20/2014 8:35:57 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A real-life horror story is playing out in Africa as Ebola spreads, and President Obama’s decision to send 3,000 troops to Liberia to combat the virus could very well put Americans at risk of contracting the deadly illness at home, some health experts say.
According to the World Health Organization, at least 4,985 people have contracted Ebola and at least 2,461 have died. Several doctors have fallen ill with Ebola, and two of them have died. New reports indicate a Doctors Without Borders staff member has contracted the virus in Liberia and will be evacuated to France for treatment.
“You can see that these doctors, who are highly trained people, got themselves infected,” said Dr. Lee Hieb, former president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. “So sending troops into an area, if they’re dealing one-on-one with a patient, they’re not going to be able to protect themselves very well. It’s not easy to [prevent transmission], because you get tired and you get careless and you make some simple mistakes. All it takes is one virus particle.”
Dr. Hieb said quarantine measures should be taken to control the outbreak and prevent Ebola from coming to America.
“You don’t get Ebola from Europe,” she told WND. “You get Ebola from Africa. And it’s a really simple formula: Don’t let people fly to America if they’ve been to areas where there’s an outbreak. When there’s an outbreak, stop air [traffic] flow.”
Hieb added, “If they’re going to use the troops to do population control, which is one of the ways you contain it, basically you just don’t let anybody out. You’d make a ring around where it is, and you’d quarantine the area.”
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Chelsea, Cheslea, Chelsea... you just don't understand what the goal here is.
Okay, here’s the frustrating thing. They *are* sending in 3,000 regular troops. This is not just a USAMRIID operation.
Or maybe Obama doesn’t know what the hell he’s taking about...?
USAMRIID has been a part of this operation from the beginning. These are additional soldiers. Guards and engineers. I do believe that, other than for support and protection for the regular USAMRIID people, this is unprecedented. I can not find any time in history that we’ve committed these kind of resources to an epidemic. (We didn’t do this during the cholera outbreak in Haiti. We’ve never sent troops in like this before.)
Do we have to deal with this? Yes. But it should be quarantine, not sending in ground troops and engineers.
So the US is sending 3,000 USAMRIID personnel all of whom couldn’t possibly get infected?
From the little that I have seen, these 3,000 are way beyond USAMRIID and while a lot is medical, a whole lot of it is construction, and instructors, and logistical muscle for moving supplies, equipment, and gear.
They will also try to produce 500 new Ebola medical trainees per week among the population.
Below are excerpts:
“The key elements of military response will focus on logistics, supplies, engineering, support for the Accra, Ghana, “air bridge” for transport of supplies and personnel to the epidemic, and the construction of at least 17 new hospital facilities designated for Ebola care.
The military will also build a training facility, which will rapidly teach infection control and self-protection procedures to hundreds of local and foreign health workers. The military hopes to process up to 500 health workers, both civilians and humanitarian responders, in a week.
The civilian side of the operation will feature further expansion of CDC deployment of epidemiologists and laboratory workers, primarily in Liberia.
The U.S. Public Health Service will provide medical staff for a Department of Defense-built 25-bed hospital in Monrovia. And USAID, partially with the financial support of Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen, will make and distribute 400,000 home care kits to Liberia, to be used by families to tend safely to ailing loved ones.”
How do you shoot a virus? Tiny, tiny bullets?
I almost died from a hang nail. Blood infection. Red line up my arm like you drew a red sharpie on it. I had to be on IV antibiotics for three days in the hospital, followed by a month of oral doses.
“could very well put Americans at risk of contracting the deadly illness at home,”
that’s the plan.
We shall see when the individual soldiers start coming home. Even if no signs of illness, they should be quarantined for 3 weeks. Ain’t gonna happen.
And if some troops are ‘accidentally’ contaminated.?
Also, many reports are that it’s also airborne - yet the sick have no masks. Will out troops? Of course not.
This is unprecedented - you can bet there’s something afoot
But what makes the difference in how any of this works is unfortunately ‘the African Population’ MORE than that of what's planned by those orchestrating this.
Since the Physicians and their assistants were/are often seen as the ones creating the Ebola problem by the population this has further created the chaos of bringing this under control.
But now throwing in American ‘Military’ into a nation already battered by wars I don't see how the Military will be seen any differently...
So no matter how we approach this the African people are not cooperating as needed. Sierre Leone has 'stopped' the “educational” teams from going into the villages after some were ambushed and killed by the people. They are a superstitious and backward people who do not have the apparent capability of understanding people are trying to help....I see no good end for this....
it sure is, and what a great chance for our military to bring it to the states...they deserve better than Obama..
That is what’s terrifying me. The possibility of another “Blackhawk Down” type of situation.
Obama will be sending in plenty of “Joes”. The medical personnel require security and logistical support in any event, and especially if things go “Twenty-eight Weeks Later”.
If you want the real skinny, read a British article. They’re even talking about what we do if Liberia declares martial law.
This is Obama’s Mogadishu clusterhump. He’s probably already had ValJar select a pigeon for scapegoating, ala Clinton and his SEC of defense, old what’s his name in case people tire of listening to his “beard” rave about how lucky we are to have him.
SOD Les Aspin, I think.
Judge Jeanine is talking about the troops being sent over, on Fox, now. Gen Boykin is slamming the operation.
There’s also an infectious disease on with her.
Gen Boykin says this is NOT a time for this type (military) of operation.
Now the infectious disease doc is slamming the operation....due to the numbers of cases and the rate the cases are growing. He said “US Military?, NO! They aren’t trained for this.”
Sending troops is incredibly STUPID!
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It’s not stupid, it’s a plan.
September 19, 2014. .
(They’re going after the people trying to help AGAIN!)
A team burying Ebola victims was attacked in Sierra Leone’s capital on Saturday, a member of parliament said, as a small group defied a three-day lockdown....... armed policemen accompanying the burial team quickly arrived, causing the attackers to flee..
Volunteers and healthcare workers are often viewed with suspicion by locals who blame them for infecting the communities they are meant to be healing, slowing the ability of authorities to contain the disease.
other info:
A chartered 747 jet, carrying the largest single shipment of aid, including protective gear and medications, to the Ebola zone to date and coordinated by the Clinton Global Initiative and other U.S. aid organizations, departed New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on ‘Saturday afternoon ‘bound for West Africa.
http://www.247bulletin.com/sierra-leone-ebola-burial-team-attacked-despite-lockdown/
Gen Boykin was just interviewed by Judge Jeanine about this “operation”.
Gen Boykin and Judge Jeanine are both asking “Where is the UN? Where are other African nations? Where are the other nations of the world, who have the same interests in this as America - who’ve not been at war, for the last thirteen years?”
Not a good situation, at all.
....”That is what’s terrifying me. The possibility of another “Blackhawk Down” type of situation”.....
Sending good people to help those who don’t understand the help...rather they’re preventing the work from getting accomplished....well sometimes it’s just not worth saving them from themselves, on the backs of our soldiers no less!
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